Announcements:
- Carnival advanced sales tickets form was sent home - this is a convenient way to get a discount on the tickets, and also avoid having to wait in line when the kids are ready to eat and ready to go play games!
Activities:
- It was a short week this week!
- Projects: Gingerbread house! Ask your child how we made this house - they had so much fun!
- Dora's clues: shovel, pail, swimsuit..... Dora had fun at the beach!
- Excuse for snack activity: match the colored gingerbread man to their color of house!
- Story - Gingerbread Boy: In this story the gingerbread boy was on a boat and he is probably still running away!!
- We came to snack and our snack was missing!!!! The gingerbread men had run away! We had a gingerbread hunt --- run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man! Where did we finally find the gingerbread men? Did we have to go all around the room to finally find them? We had a great time, and a fun adventure!!
Announcements:
- Please note a typo on the January calendar - there is NO SCHOOL on Thursday Jan 26th and Friday Jan 27th!
- Please note the carnival invitations sent home in your child's backpack! Send them to family, friends & neighbors - it's lots of fun games and prizes for the kids! There are more invites at the school or just copy yours!
- Raffle tickets for the carnival were sent home in your child's backpack! We do have more at school if anyone wants more! As we did last year, we are selling fewer tickets so the odds of winning are much higher!
Activities this week:
- Topics: 5 senses and poison
- Healthy Kid Helpers : Braxton & Molly
- Projects: Carnival invite and snowman!
- Dora's clues: small, medium, and large octagons - we talked about thins shaped like an octagon: stop signs, some umbrellas, etc.
- We've got mail! We had a taste test: 1) salty = chips, 2) sour = baby dill pickles, 3) sweet = M&M's!
- Excuse for snack activity: 1) match snowman and his hat, and 2) look at the letters in each child's name!
- Mortimer the puppet introduced the letter K this week! He was the king of the forest! Practice the "K sound with your child this week!
- Poison: We talked about different poisons and also about "Mr. Goodarm". Mr. Goodarm helps us pick up things that are only good for us and helps us think about what we should do if we see something that looks good but we're not sure what it is = Go talk to your parents about it!
- Books: Jamberry, and Big Smelly Bear.
- Eyes and Ears Songs: 1) Senses - sung to the "Muffin Man": Oh, do you use your ears to hear, Your ears to hear, your ears to hear?; Oh do you use your ears to hear? Oh, yes! We use our ears! (repeat with eyes to see, mouth to taste, nose to smell, and hands to touch) 2) sung to "Are you Sleeping": Ears are listening, Ears are listening; Listen now! Listen now!; Let's make a little noise, Make a little noise!; stomp, clap, clap; stomp, clap, clap!
- Be sure to check the Friday PreK page and the updated Photos page!
Announcements:
- The monthly newsletter was sent home in your child's backpack- please read for important details!
- The carnival is coming up - Friday February 10th - help spread the word, this is a fun family event!
- Math and Storybook totes are available to check out from Small Wonders - enjoy!
- Remember to send shoes to wear during school when boots are worn - thanks!
- Conferences will be on March 9th, sign up will be posted in the school in February!
Activities this week:
- Projects: Celebrate 2012 Decoration, or Hat! We also worked on a story in our booklet called "Once Upon a Time...."
- Mortimer the puppet: introduced the letter "J"! he was jingling - he found jingle bells in the woods!
- We've got mail: We found an experiment - "Iceberg Bottles"! Here's how we did it: Fill a 20 oz water bottle 3/4th full of water, add glitter, craft foam pieces, game pieces, etc. in the bottle and freeze. Examine and watch it melt. Remember to look at it the next time you come to school and see what happens!
- Dora's clues: Blue marker, blue paper, blue crayon: we found that Dora had a fun book about Blue!
- Music: "I'm a Little Snowman" - sung to "I'm a Little Teapot": I'm a little snowman, short and fat; Here is my broomstick, here is my hat; When the sun comes out, I melt away; Down down down down - Oops I'm a puddle!
- Books: Snowmen at Night - what do snowmen do at night? Slide around? Sip ice cold cocoa? Have snowman races? Throw snowballs? When Winter Comes - this book was all about that changes that happen in the winter - where do caterpillars, mice, and other creatures go in the winter?
- Excuse for snack exercise: 1) Carry a styrofoam snowball with tongs from point A to point B, 2) Roll a snowball to a friend!
